Deliciously Stephy

Caffeine is killing Stephanie.

October 30th, 2006

There’s nothing worse than feeling that you’re unable to take control of your life.

This happens to me when my long-term health problem comes bugging me or when I can’t seem to stop eating junk food.

Recently I have something new to add to my List of the Uncontrollable. It is caffeine.

I used to drink about a cup of coffee everyday — sometimes none, at most 2; and I usually chose European coffee (those with Espresso), which usually contains less caffeine than a regular American coffee.

However, my caffeine intake started increasing last summer as I started drinking energy drink.

Things got even worse this semester. I switched to American coffee since it was cheaper; and I’m now drinking an average of 2 cups of American coffee + 1 cup of tea. Sometimes I even drink 3 cups of coffee! Compared with 5 years ago, when my caffeine consumption was zero, it is definitely tooooo much!

It finally came to a point where I felt like crap all of a sudden last Wednesday, and I couldn’t even finish my cup of Earl Grey.
It wasn’t that I physically felt sick of it. It was more a mental discomfort.

I never felt so addicted to caffeine before, and the idea that too much caffeine was bad for health and that I would have a shaky hand when I got older really bothered me a lot.
On the other hand, however, I dun want to fall asleep in class or in the library when I try to study.

Well, people say that tea is better than coffee; and after some googling, I found that black tea contained only about half the amount of caffeine as that of a regular coffee, and green tea has even less.

Therefore, I’m now trying to drink tea when I feel like drinking coffee.

Earl Grey is my favourite. Starbucks’ Zen, which is a scented green tea, also tastes very good.

By the way, I didn’t drink any coffee last Saturday. Am I a good girl or not? And I only have one today …… so far …
Next time if I ask you to help me go get a cup of coffee or tea, secretly order a decaffed one for me.

I’m not sure if I can tell the difference between a regular coffee and a decaf one coz I’ve never tried any decaf coffee or tea, but I’m sure that psychological dependance has quite a big role in my addiction to coffee.

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